Graduate Project Manager

-; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

A leader in energy solutions seeks a Graduate Project Manager to support key projects in clean energy development. This role involves coordinating project compliance, managing documentation, and analyzing financial data. Ideal candidates will have a degree in STEM or Business from 2025 or ’26 and possess strong Microsoft skills along with effective communication abilities. The position also offers opportunities for professional development and a competitive salary in a supportive environment that values diversity.

Benefits

Base salary of £35,227

Final salary pension scheme with 21.5% employer contribution

25 days annual leave plus additional days

Flexible and hybrid working options

Qualifications

• Must have a degree in a STEM or Business field by 2025 or 2026.
• Proficiency in Microsoft applications like Excel, Word, and Powerpoint is required.
• Should be driven with a strong appetite for learning and new challenges.
• Must collaborate effectively and communicate with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Must be well organized and adaptable to plan and prioritize workloads.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and support projects, ensuring compliance and managing documentation.
• Work closely with Project Manager to ensure execution of projects to high standards.
• Analyze project data including finances and produce standard reports.
• Proactively close actions for the project manager.

Skills

Microsoft applications including Excel, Word and Powerpoint

Collaboration and communication skills

Organizational skills

Willingness to learn

Ability to plan and prioritize workload

Education

Degree in STEM or Business from 2025 or '26

Job description

Company Description

Fusion, the process that powers the sun and stars, is one of the most promising options for generating the cleaner, carbon‑free energy that our world badly needs. UKAEA leads the way in realizing fusion energy, partnering with industry and research organisations to achieve ground breaking advancements. Our goal is to bring fusion electricity to the grid by developing the power stations of tomorrow and the skilled workforce to deliver them.

Job Description

As a Graduate Project Manager, you will coordinate and support one or more projects, ensuring compliance with processes, maintaining key project documentation, and helping deliver projects to budget, schedule, and quality requirements. These projects span maintenance and enhancement of UKAEA's world‑class fusion devices and the development of new facilities that advance enabling technologies, all contributing to the mission of progressing fusion energy toward commercialisation. Your core responsibilities will include:

• Work closely with Project Manager on variety of projects and ensuring that they are executed to a high standard according to established project and technical management processes, leading to delivered solutions of an engineering integrity commensurate with nuclear operations.
• Responsible for the creation and management of key documentation for the project(s).
• Analyse Project Data (including finances) and produce standard project reports.
• Coordinate and being proactive in closing actions for project manager.

As part of the 20% dedicated to training and development, you will complete a core suite of activities aimed at enhancing your professional and business skills, with flexibility to tailor the programme to both your personal development and the needs of your specific role.

Qualifications

• Degree in STEM or Business from 2025 or '26
• Confident with all Microsoft applications including Excel, Word and Powerpoint
• Driven, with a strong appetite to learn and take on new challenges
• Able to collaborate effectively and communicate clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences
• Well organised and adaptable with the ability to plan and prioritise workload

Additional Information

A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/ but highlights include:

• £35,227 base salary
• Final salary defined benefit scheme with an equivalent of 21.5% employer pension contribution
• 25 days annual leave, plus 3 days Christmas closure and 2.5 privilege days, in addition to UK bank holidays
• Flexible and hybrid working options

UKAEA's mission is clean energy for all, and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds who want to help us achieve our mission. We are under‑represented from some groups and so want to encourage applications in particular from women in STEM, people from Black British Caribbean and African backgrounds and from Pakistani and Bangladeshi British backgrounds. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) and Wellbeing and our EDI Networks actively promote Inclusion and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

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